Kikkoman

After getting a Mac laptop back in 2002-ish I have moved family and friends over to macs, which is at least 9 macs over the years. 5 laptops, 3 minis, and 2 iMacs.

My old Athlon 64 system is getting a little long in the tooth, so I am going to pass it onto my sister and get another desktop. I’d like to get a Mac, but can’t due to the hole in the mac product line.

I am getting a Dell, not because I want a Dell or Vista or want to run Linux on it (which is my plan), but because won’t sell a reasonably priced “normal desktop” box. The only Mac you can get that you can open up, add a harddrive, upgrade the video card etc, is the crazy expensive Mac Pro.

I sold my mac stock recently, I’ll consider buying more when they come out with the iPhone “mini” which needs to be at a $300 pricepoint (at $600 its going to flop like the PS3), and or when they offer a midrange $1k box that is upgrade / tinker friendly.

Update :  The new computer is nice.   It is very quiet.   We have named it StormTrooper after its white and black paint job / finish.   That and Ubuntu 7.04 was able to correctly set video resolution on my monitor (odd widescreen 1600×1050) with no /etc/xorg.conf hacking.

And yes Apple did just announce record profits, I still think the iPhone will initially be a dud.

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